US President Donald Trump’s younger brother Robert Trump passes away at 71

Robert Trump, 71, the younger brother of President Donald Trump, passed away on Saturday night. at a New York hospital. The reason for his demise is not revealed as yet. According to the New York Post, Robert spent more than a week in the intensive-care unit of Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital in June.

Robert Trump a businessman left for his heavenly abode a day after his brother President Donald Trump paid him a visit at New York-Presbyterian Hospital on Friday afternoon. He stayed there for about 45 minutes.

Trump announced the passing away of his brother with an emotional statement. He said, “It is with heavy heart I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight,” Donald Trump said in a statement. “He was not just my brother, he was my best friend. He will be greatly missed, but we will meet again. His memory will live on in my heart forever. Robert, I love you. Rest in peace.”

Robert Trump was born in 1948 and was one of four siblings to the President, including the late Fred Trump. He had served as an executive vice president of the Trump Organization. Part of his duties including overseeing the organization’s Atlantic City casinos.

The youngest of the Trump siblings was quite close to the 74-year-old president. In June, he had filed a temporary restraining order in an attempt to block the publication of a tell-all book by Mary Trump, Fred Trump Jr.’s daughter.

May his soul rest in peace.

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